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Previously published as a special issue of the "Journal of European Public Policy", this book draws on the insights of the literature on agenda setting and policy changes to explore the dynamics of attention allocation and its consequences. It is of interest to students and scholars of policy analysis and public policy.

How have EU-level actors responded to the increase in salience and contestation across the member states? This volume explores and explains the actors' strategic responses and emphasises that domestic pressure has triggered both depoliticisation and politicisation.Long gone are the times when EU decisions left citizens indifferent, and when the supranational was largely irrelevant for public opinion and electoral politics across the member states. Instead, a string of existential crises has struck and unsettled the Union over more than a decade. These crises have politicised Europe, tested the endurance of the supranational system to its core, and put EU-level actors under unprecedented pressure. This volume explores how and why EU-level actors respond to the various, sometimes competing, 'bottom-up' demands, and challenges the view that domestic contestation necessarily limits EU-level room for manoeuvre. Instead, contributions show that domestic pressure can be perceived as either constraining or enabling, with responses, therefore, ranging from the restrained to the assertive. Driven by the survival of the Union, by the preservation of their own powers, and by different perceptions of domestic demands, actors will choose to politicise or depoliticise decision-making, behaviour, and policy outcomes at the supranational level. The volume concludes that whilst domestic pressure triggers supranational responses, such responses should not be assumed to be restraining; they may equally be empowering including for European integration itself.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Under what conditions does the internal cohesiveness of the European Union determine its external effectiveness on the world stage? This book asks this question, investigating the frequent political assumption that the more cohesive the EU presents itself to the world, the more effective it is in achieving its goals. Contributions to this book explore this theory from a range of perspectives, from trade to foreign policy, and highlight complex patterns between internal cohesiveness and external effectiveness. These are simplified into three possible configurations: internal cohesiveness has a positive impact on external effectiveness; internal cohesiveness has no impact on external effectiveness; and internal cohesiveness has a negative impact on external effectiveness. The international context in which the EU operates, which includes the bargaining configuration and the policy arena, functions as an intervening variable that helps us to explain variation in these causal links. The book also launches a research agenda aimed at explaining these patterns more systematically and determining the marginal impact of cohesiveness on effectiveness. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book aims to move beyond establishing that the EU influences global regulation towards a focus on the EU's active efforts, both bilateral and multilateral, to shape regulations beyond its borders. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Whereas `democracy¿ assumes a single demos or people, `demoi-cracy¿ refers to democratic government and governance in a polity constituted by separate peoples. Since the European Union consists of many demoi with different collective identities, largely separate public spheres, and a predominantly national political infrastructure, demoi-cracy is an appropriate standard for the analysis and evaluation of democracy in the EU. This volume brings together analyses of a broad range of institutions and policies of the EU from the perspective of demoi-cracy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Few events over the past few decades have given rise to an amount of debate and speculation concerning the state of the European Union and the future of European integration as the economic and financial crisis that began in 2007. The contributions in this book, using various theoretical lenses on European integration, explain why Europe¿s Economic and Monetary Union did not implode as a result of the crisis but further integrated instead.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

The character of international trade has changed dramatically over the past twenty years. Previously published as a special issue of The Journal of European Public Policy, this volume provides a `state of the art¿ study of the new trade politics.

The character of international trade has changed dramatically over the past twenty years. Previously published as a special issue of The Journal of European Public Policy, this volume provides a `state of the art¿ study of the new trade politics.

This volume brings together experts on both migration and political parties ¿ fields that have not always interacted as much as they could or should have done ¿ in order to study the impacts, dilemmas and trade-offs involved in establishing an immigration policy.

To what extent and in which direction can we empirically observe a convergence of national policies? In which areas and for which patterns of policy is convergence more or less pronounced? This text addresses these central questions with clarity and rigour.

Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this study revisits the work of the late Ernst Haas, assessing his relevance for contemporary European integration and its disparities.

This book puts the organizational base of EU policy-making centre stage. It asks three crucial questions about recent administrative reform of the European Commission: why was such a comprehensive reform possible; what are its specific implications for the Commission as an organization; what is the likely impact for the policy process?

This volume analyses and explains variation in the EU's ability to influence regulations beyond its borders. It was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book offers a state-of-the-art-analysis of the study of differentiated integration in the European Union. It unravels the nature of this notion, and demonstrates the need to study differentiation as a permanent and normal feature of European integration. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This volume examines the degree of success by which EU policies have attempted to manage globalization in a variety of policy areas.This book was based on a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

This research volume scrutinizes the role of political parties in all European institutions drawing upon elite interviews, case studies and statistical analysis.

This book analyses current moves of Western democratic welfare states away from compartmentalized sectoral governance arrangements towards more open, contested and networked politics. The chapters originally published as a special issue in The Journal of European Public Policy.

To what extent and in which direction can we empirically observe a convergence of national policies? In which areas and for which patterns of policy is convergence more or less pronounced? This text addresses these questions, and is intended for students and scholars of the European Union, European politics, and international relations.

This volume assembles the most renowned scholars in the field to address the key themes and challenges that governance by and with agencies in the EU poses to effective and legitimate policy-making.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. This book was based on a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

European politicians often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization'. This volume argues that the advocacy of managed globalization goes beyond rhetoric and actually has been a primary driver of major European Union (EU) policies.

The last decades have witnessed a significant shift in policy competencies away from central governments in Europe. The reallocation of competencies spans over three dimensions: upwards, sideways, and downwards. This collection takes the dispersion of powers as a starting point and seeks to assess how the actors involved cope with the new configurations. Chapters discuss the conceptualization of power dispersion and highlight the ways in which we add to this research agenda. Some general conclusions are also outlined, indicating future avenues of research. Taken together, the collection contributes answers to the challenge of defining and measuring - in a comparative way - the control and co-ordination mechanisms which power dispersion generates. In sum, the collection explores the tension between political actors'' quest for autonomy and the acknowledgement of their interdependence whilst revealing how, as power dispersion deepens, central governments have sought to both manage and limit it. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This volume offers a thematic and forward-looking survey of cutting-edge research on EU negotiation dynamics, identifying findings to date and setting an empirical and methodological agenda for future research. This book was based on a special issue of Journal of European Public Policy.

Confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation and their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. This book assesses both the effectiveness and legitimacy of the channels of political representation which have developed in the EU.

Asks three crucial questions about the administrative reform of the European Commission: why was such a comprehensive reform possible, what are its specific implications for the Commission as an organisation, and what is the likely impact for the policy process. This book puts the organisational base of EU policy-making centre stage.

EU Lobbying: Empirical and Theoretical Studies offers an analysis of large empirical studies of interest group politics and Lobbying in Europe. It assesses the logic of collective and direct action, the logic of access and influence, the logic of venue-shopping and alliance building.

A study of the trade politics in international trade.

Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this book draws on the insights of the existing literature on agenda setting and policy changes to explore the dynamics of attention allocation and its consequences.

Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this study revisits the work of the late Ernst Haas, assessing his relevance for contemporary European integration and its disparities.

This volume offers a fresh look at the EU¿s foreign economic policies using a principal-agent approach. It provides insights into the EU¿s trade policy, its role in international financial governance, and its involvement in the G8 and the International Accounting Standards Board.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.